On linux, the command is ip addr add IFADDR dev STRING, where IFADDR and STRING are replaced by the IP address and device name. You can see some examples in the Guide to IP Layer NEtwork Administration with Linux. You'll also want to specify your routes that use that IP address using ip route. Again, the guide comes through.
Even though the syntax of the ip commands makes it seem that you are associating the IP address with a specific network card, linux considers the IP address as belonging to the overall system. Thus in some circumstances you may want to twiddle with ARP settings.
The only thing is that you're not saying "all addresses should have access" -- that's done in your firewall(s) and/or the server software and/or other security layers like tcpwrappers.
0.0.0.0, in this context, means "all IP addresses on the local machine" (in fact probably, "all IPv4 addresses on the local machine"). So, if your webserver machine has two IP addresses, 192.168.1.1 and 10.1.2.1, and you allow a webserver daemon like apache to listen on 0.0.0.0, it will be reachable at both of those IP addresses. But only to what can contact those IP addresses and the web port(s).
Note that, in a different context (routing) 0.0.0.0 usually means the default route (the route to "the rest of" the internet, aside from routes in your local network etc.).
Found a network card that was compatible with one of the Free NIC drivers for Solaris. In my case, I had an Intel card that was compatible with the "em driver for intel gigabit ethernet controller 8254x".
Downloaded the source tarball and following the very explicit directions I found in README.txt.
Unfortunately my system had no compiler, so I had to install gcc from sunfreeware. As per the gcc instructions, I also installed libiconv.
Once I had the ability to compile, the README.txt told me nearly exactly how to do everything else.
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On linux, the command is
ip addr add IFADDR dev STRING, where IFADDR and STRING are replaced by the IP address and device name. You can see some examples in the Guide to IP Layer NEtwork Administration with Linux. You'll also want to specify your routes that use that IP address usingip route. Again, the guide comes through.Even though the syntax of the
ipcommands makes it seem that you are associating the IP address with a specific network card, linux considers the IP address as belonging to the overall system. Thus in some circumstances you may want to twiddle with ARP settings.